MARK
EITZEL
Accompanied by
Marc Capelle of American Music Club
+ guest - NIALL
COLFER
The Village,
Wednesday 11th November, Doors 8pm
Tickets for the
event are €20 including booking fee available from Tickets.ie, WAV box office
[lo-call 1890 200 078] & Ticketmaster outlets
nationwide.
“America’s Greatest Living
Lyricist.” – The
Guardian
For Mark Eitzel’s new tour he will
be performing special piano shows across Europe
including a date in The Village on November 11th. He will be accompanied by
American Music Clubs arranger and keyboardist Marc Capelle and will be
showcasing songs from his new album "Klamath" which will be released in
Ireland on November
6th.
Mark will
also be performing American Music Club songs alongside his solo
tracks.
‘Klamath’ (décor records) is the
album that a lot of people have been asking Mark Eitzel to make for a very long
time, just Mark’s amazing voice, an acoustic guitar and minimal
instrumentation.
After a full year of touring Mark
came back to San
Francisco exhausted and called on some friends for an
escape. They were living in Happy Camp, California - by the Klamath river, a
small cabin in the middle of the woods and way off the grid in Northern California. Mark says about writing the
album:
“I wandered around for a couple of
weeks in this untouched forest and decided I would make a record that included
the stillness - the vicious beauty - I heard there. I had not felt this way for
a long time. I should have made another American Music Club record for the label
- but didn’t hear drums and big electric guitars. Klamath is a simple record. I
am a simple man. Or I wanna be. It's the kind of record I would want to listen
to.”
The basic tracks were written and
recorded in Klamath and finished off in San Francisco in the following three
months with Eitzel producing and the likes of Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady
and Marc Capelle from American Music Club and Dave Douglas (who drums with
Kelley Stoltz) guesting on the album. The pastoral – laid back, late night
sparse feel to the album harkens back to Eitzel’s folk influences of Nick Drake
and John Martyn and earlier work with AMC. The only electric guitar featured is
in Eitzel’s tribute to local Columbus, Ohio
(where Eitzel grew up) new wave hero Ronald Koal. After the instrumental lead in
to the album ‘Buried Treasure’ Eitzel puts on his lyrical and melodic
best.
‘Klamath’ is Mark’s first proper
solo album of new material since 2001’s ‘Invisible Man’ on Matador. Just prior
to AMC’s breakup in 1995, Eitzel began his solo career in earnest and since then
he has released six albums including “60 Watt Siliver Lining”, “West” with REM’s
Peter Buck, “Caught in a Trap...” with members of Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo
and two albums of cover versions. In 2003, American Music Club got back
together for one of the most anticipated and amazing reunions in ages. Their
2004 album, “Love Songs for
Patriots”, received widespread critical acclaim as well as the follow up “The
Golden Age”. In between these albums he released a collection of soundtrack
material called ‘Candy Ass’. Eitzel is now working on a new record with Peter
Buck, the next AMC album and a musical in London called Marine Parade co-written with
Simon Stephens.
Mark Eitzel is the singer and
songwriter out of American Music Club. Mark has been making records since 1980.
He has a full beard and is bald. Mark is one of the best songwriters in the
world, Rolling Stone said this back in 1992 but it is still true. Mark Eitzel is
sometimes his own worst enemy so it is fun to get them fighting each other, Mark
Eitzel II normally loses out to Alpha Eitzel. Mark has also sung with the
Toiling Midgets and with Peter Buck of REM. Mark hates long haul flights and
loves writing rants about bad hotels on travel sites, someday we may collect
these into a book. Mark Eitzel has released 8 solo albums, 9 albums with
American Music Club and many other side projects, tour albums etc. I’m not sure
Mark Eitzel is a very good lover, he is defiantly not a very good fighter. Mark
Eitzel is currently working on his new solo album, another album with Mr Buck
and after that a new American Music Club album. Mark lives in the city of
San Francisco in
the Mission District…the world’s best burritos come from here. Mark has lived in
Ohio, NYC, Southampton and can often be found
walking the streets of London. If you see Mark II stop and say hi and
he may get you a drink but please don’t hassle Alpha Eitzel, we are not insured
here for any public liability.
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